Facebook Wants To Leverage AI To Beat Humans At 'Go', The One Game Computers Can't Master

Facebook Wants To Leverage AI To Beat Humans At ‘Go’, The One Game Computers Can’t Master

Facebook announced that it’s working on an AI development program that relies on deep learning and visual pattern recognition. One of its uses? Creating a bot Go player so advanced that it can beat a human at the ancient game.(Photo : Facebook) Facebook says that its artificial intelligence (AI) division embarked on an ambitious quest: to build an AI so advanced that it can beat a human player at Go. The two and a half thousand-year-old strategy board game is one of the toughest nuts to crack for programmers and AI experts. The rules are dead simple – each player places white or black stones at intersecting lines, on a 19×19 grid, and the final purpose is being able to control the board. The minimalistic game has significantly more permutations…